Schedule of Events for the Frontier Muster and Trade Faire – Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association

Saturday, April 29

10:00 a.m. SAR Wreath Laying Ceremony

10:30 a.m. The Scots-Irish in Revolutionary America (Visitor Center)

11:00 a.m. Horseback Riders Headed for Kentucky (Blockhouse Area)

11:30 a.m. Tory-Patriot Skirmish (Blockhouse Area)

1:00 p.m. Slave Narrative: Jane’s Story (Dog Trot by Blacksmith Shop)

1:30 p.m. Cherokee Language Workshop (Micah Swimmer)

2:30 p.m. Kids Militia and Black Powder Demonstration

3:30 p.m. Frontier Auction and Hilarity (Auction Tent)

5:00 p.m. Hayride

Sunday, April 30

11:00 a.m. Frontier Church service

12:30 p.m. Finger Food and Light Refreshments

1:00 p.m. –

3:00 p.m. Please enjoy visiting with our demonstrators and presenters

All Day/Both Days

Blockhouse historical tours, flax to linen processing, soap making, candle making, salt boiling, Colonial Period toys and games, blacksmithing, fire starting, hide tanning, powder horn making and scrimshaw techniques, food drying and preserving, sewing, and cord making. Frontier Music will be presented by the Washington County Fife and Drum Band, the Smith Brothers, and Jim Wolfe.

Important Notes to Our Visitors:

To our friends with pets: we need to remind you that pets must be restrained on a leash at all times and MUST NOT be led near or around any horses, as this could cause serious injuries should a horse become excitable!!! Pets are not allowed inside historical buildings or structures. Owners are expected to walk their pets far away from the historical viewing areas and to clean up after them in areas where visitors may be walking. Thank you.

The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association is not allowed by public health regulations to feed any visitors from the cook fires or cooking preparation areas. Only registered volunteers may eat this food. Hot dogs and other snacks will be available for our visitors from Park vendors in front of the Interpretive Center and Museum. Thank you.

About the book: The Blockhouse On The Holston

The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association has published a history of the Blockhouse that was built in 1775 on the North Fork of the Holston by John Anderson. His fortified home became a landmark along the road west, the Wilderness Road, marked by Daniel Boone that same year. Over the next thirty years, some 300,000 people passed Anderson’s home on their journey through Cumberland Gap and on into what would become the state of Kentucky, and further westward.

William L. Anderson, a direct descendant of John, has written a well-researched book that tells the story, the history of the home that became known to posterity as “The Blockhouse,” and its part in the expansion westward of our new nation. The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association is proud to offer this book that tells, for the first time in such detail, the very significant part played in our nation’s history by the pioneer settlers of the western frontier during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

Also included in the book are many brief biographies of significant players in the story, maps, an article on Fort Blackmore, and the diary of early explorer Dr. Thomas Walker.

The book may be purchased for $19.95 at Natural Tunnel State Park at the Visitor’s Center and at the Wilderness Road Blockhouse Interpretive Center (276-940-2674) and at the law offices of Lisa Ann McConnell in Duffield. Or contact Robert E. McConnell at roberte@mounet.com or 276-452-4520

About the book: The Blockhouse On The Holston